Very skeptical that AI simulation will serve as a substitute for experiments in most of these areas, not any time in the foreseeable future:
https://t.co/0EyW0hpakF
More people now support UBI than oppose it across all demographics except for Whites, 65+, college+, and Trump voters. 64% of Harris voters and 57% of nonvoters support UBI. Heads up to you nonvoters, you're going to need to start voting if you want UBI.
The Enhanced Games are framed as a liberation: one that transcends biological constraints and acknowledges that modern sports already rely on complex scientific, technical, and financial systems. But this "liberation" is riddled with contradictions.
https://t.co/oKFbJNBgHw
Sure, the use value of AI may be real.
But the rising costs are real too. At current prices, AI will be a luxury good, not the widespread utility we were promised. https://t.co/pdkIU2qbb6
New episode of Bread and Robots with @rjeskow — writer, former @BernieSanders speechwriter, and #technoprogressive thinker with @IEET.
We talked about everything from AI and social imagination to the #generalintellect and left futurism.
🎧 [https://t.co/b9GFU64kA5]
Europe Wins Again. Obviously.
Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.
They chose Europe.
This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.
Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.
Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.
Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.
Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.
So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.
The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.
Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
早ければ2026年には、最高裁で同性婚に関する判決が出ます。
「日本に同性婚は必要だと思いますか?」
その声を集めてみました。
この動画を見て、すこしでも応援したいと感じてくれたら、「いいね」や「シェア」をしてもらえるとうれしいです。
Marriage for All Japan
https://t.co/PjNldk5fLq
Interesting interview with me by (mediated by?) Cassian AI to explore the intersection of contemplative practice, neurotechnology, and the future of consciousness. Can AI develop genuine awareness? Can technology make us more compassionate? https://t.co/TpFShwkJzR
Even the rich suffer from living in unequal societies with broken safety nets. And the fascists the rich support to protect them from the poors eventually also screw the rich.
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In order to pass universal programs such as Medicare-for-all, Universal Basic Income, or to expand Social Security, we need to get big money out of politics.
Dr. Brian Edlow speaking on using neurotechology to detect covert consciousnesss in patient's unable to communicate who appear unconscious. Pts with covert consciousness are more likely to recover from coma. #philbcis26
Coming up at our Philosophy of BCIs conf, Stephen Damianos of the Neurorights Foundation on "Governance and Neurotechnology" #philbcis26
https://t.co/cZvKTlAMLF